campaign, or is it because he embraced paul ryan in the republican agenda. if you re an independent voter, what bothers you more as you look ahead to 2018? all these russia controversies and scandals or the president is pursuing a health care bill that goes after the medication expansion and maybe even goes after your own coverage? that may explain why very conservative people like paul ryan, total idealogical people, they seem to like him. the new poll, your poll at the post, 90% of self-identified conservative republicans, nine out of ten i ve never seen a poll like that for anybody are with trump. so at the same time he s coddling up to a relationship with paul ryan on ideology, you re saying he s losing the independents? it s not just the ideology. think about what the republican party does today to gin up that base, it s grievance party. it runs against the media before
let s shore up the markets, keep the medication expansion and let s just make sure the markets make sure people are covered and the markets are strong. that s what has to happen but they continue to beat their head against a wall. when you send your emails and tweets, it was matt lewis a republican who uttered the words, dirty old man. not us. dirty middle-aged man. [ laughter ] thank you all. we ll be right back. will you be ready when the moment turns romantic? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph.
until the cbo comes out and says this is going to save us money and look and say, you know, this is going to transfer costs away from states that didn t take the medication expansion and you re not going to have to pay for the states that did, that s a big sticking point that a lot of republicans won t get behind. mike, when we think about one narrative taking place, we know there s going to be the public hearing coming up on the 20th, wiretapping, we have the ranking democrat on the intel committee, adam schiff, saying he expects president trump s claim to be debunked. this is when that intel hear willing take place. but is that true? and will we learn that directly from fbi director comey? well, we certainly don t know. the thing about the march 20th hearing is these people have been invited but nobody s actually committed. yesterday the fbi said they think that comey will show up, but they could change their mind at any minute. we don t know who s going to be there. is clapper g
yesterday you saw members of the freedom caucus criticizing the bill, calling for full repeal of the affordable care act and a different replacement plan. for more i want to bring in a member of the house freedom caucus, mark sanford joins us from south carolina. thank you for being with us. my pleasure. you heard paul ryan. he says he has no doubt that the bill will pass the u.s. house of representatives. is he going to be able to do that? well, i hope so. and i believe so, but i think there s a little bit of refinement between here and there. would you vote for this piece of legislation right now as written? presently, no. but you think there s going to be refinement on this bill that will ultimately make it appealing to conservatives as well. what do you need to see changed? i think one of the dangerous things in it is the idea of continued medication expansion. if you look at the provision, basically it allows governors to opt in over the next couple of years. i think
complicate gop plans to repeal obamacare. i want to run through your article. you said older americans because they could be charged more than younger people. you said conservative lawmakers, because it doesn t go far enough in getting rid of medication expansion for some of them. you said governors, you say you think some governors think it s stingy on medicaid. another group you are looking at is people getting affordable care act coverage particularly those with low incomes because they might not get as much help as they did. voters, democrats who don t want to see changes to the law because they like obamacare as it is. and people who support abortion rights or planned parenthood because federal plans are cut off to planned parenthood for a year through medicaid. which is the biggest challenge? we are talking about a process in congress. the biggest problem i would say is that moderates in the senate thinking it s too conservative,